Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. ...

This collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of...

With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Directo...

They havent spoken for 12 years. Can they fall in love in 12 days? Ive been bowled over ...

Go behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation's smart,hilarious comedy The Boss Baby. This beautifully illustratedbook includes a wide range of colo...

Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick has only made 5 films, b...

A highly colorful journey into the boundless territory of a genius s imagination, this is a work that added a fundamental element to the study of F...

When Joss Whedon's television show Firefly (2002-2003) was cancelled, devoted fans cried foul and demanded more--which led to the 2005 feature f...

Sustaining a long career in any part of the film industry anywhere in the world is hard, but sustaining one in the ever-shifting realm of creative,...

Written by two Australian academics with a long-standing interest in the work of Mangiamele, ''Celluloid Immigrant'' is the first in-depth study of...

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous ...

The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar and lesser-known filmmakers. While their art...

In late autumn 1968, Dorian Bond was tasked with travelling to Yugoslavia to deliver cigars and film stock to the legendary Hollywood director Orso...

A comprehensive study of Raymond Bellour, one of the most important foundational theorists of Film StudiesOne of the most influential figures in Fr...

A layered portrait of a troubled genius for whom art was not merely a thing of beauty but a vital part of living itself.The original Marathi book w...

In this revelatory career-length biography, produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle, he talks frankly about the secrets behind t...

The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and worksOver her six-film career, including works like 'Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff' and 'Certain Wom...

This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, ori...

Alexander Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creat...

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in...

Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Holl...

One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous ...

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading s...

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading s...

In Rose Eichenbaum's latest book on the confluence of art making and human expression, she sits down with thirty-five modern day storytellersthe di...

In summer 2016, a new exhibit on del Toro's work will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, focusing on the recurring themes in his films,...

Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Betwe...

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process, ...

The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino dir...

If you look for a meaning, youll miss everything that happens.Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his film...

J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now that he is being offered the chance to visit a ga...

On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years-f...